Abstract Context: On March 19, 2020, President Donald Trump endorsed using
hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 treatment despite inconclusive evidence of the drug's …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the politicization of public health
issues. A public health monitoring tool must be equipped to reveal a public health measure's …

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented opportunity to
reimagine clinical research. While much has been written about the challenges associated …

The COVID-19 pandemic has created communication challenges exacerbated by the
circulation of misinformation and the politicization of science. The case of …

Background: People who use drugs (PWUD) are at high risk for COVID-19 infection,
morbidity, and mortality. COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective at reducing serious …

Zoonotic epidemics and pandemics have become frequent. From HIV/AIDS through COVID-
19, they demonstrate that pandemics are social processes as well as health occurrences …

We build an evolutionary game-theoretic model of the interaction between policymakers and
experts in shaping the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Players' decisions …

Previously, it has been shown that transmissible and harmful misinformation can be viewed
as pathogenic, potentially contributing to collective social epidemics. In this study, a …

The concept of moralisation of health behaviours was introduced in social psychology to
describe the attribution of moral properties to habits and conditions like smoking or being a …

Despite the shared belief that information visualisations are immune to manipulation, as
visual stimuli, they “are no different from words in this regard, for any means of …